[Commlist] CAMEo Conference: Re-Futuring Creative Economies

CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies at University 
of Leicester is delighted to announce our call for papers for our 3^rd 
annual conference:

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*Re-Futuring Creative Economies*

*Thursday 5 - Friday 6 September 2019*

*Leicester, UK***

CAMEo is an interdisciplinary research institute exploring the changing 
dynamics of production and consumption in the cultural and creative 
industries, creative economy, media and arts – with a particular 
emphasis on participation, sustainability and social justice. We now 
invite submissions for our forthcoming conference /Re-Futuring Creative 
Economies./

As the creative economy has become instituted as a field of policy and 
industrial activity, so it has become invested with orthodox and 
optimistic assumptions about the *social futures* it anticipates – 
pacific visions of ‘progress’ and ‘advancement’ that tend to take for 
granted renewed and stable economic growth, an increase in social 
participation and inclusion, and the emergence of ‘clean’ technologies 
to drive benign and enabling social experiences and innovations. These 
optimistic projections overlook a range of problems occasioned by 
current and future crises. Such projections are also /de-futuring - /in 
that they serve to close down the range of different, alternative, 
sustainable and socially-just creative economies that might otherwise be 
conceived and lived. What opportunity now is there for imagining and 
undertaking other, more progressive, creative economy futures?

We invite contributions for papers and panels that explore progressive 
possible futures for the cultural, media and creative economies. 
Contributions are invited on any of the following (or related) themes:

  * theorizing critical creative economies;
  * challenging inequalities and injustices in cultural and creative work;
  * improving inclusion, reciprocity and sharing in creative economies;
  * building humane, alternative and heterodox creative economies;
  * constructively challenging mainstream creative economy policy and
    practice;
  * making creative economies ecologically sustainable;
  * theorizing ‘circular’, ‘post-growth’ or ‘degrown’ creative economies;
  * imagining utopian and/or dystopian creative futures;

Please use the *application form* 
<https://www2.le.ac.uk/institutes/cameo/cameo-events/conference-proposal-form-2019> and 
submit by *Friday 7 June 2019. *Keynote speakers and venue will be 
announced in due course.

/Fee: £80 (two days) includes lunches and refreshments. Optional evening 
dinner and social (Thursday). A limited number of supported places for 
currently unwaged/unemployed/institutionally unsupported researchers 
will be made available – please see application form for details./

If you have any questions, please email us at 
(cameoconference2019 /at/ leicester.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(cameoconference2019 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)>.


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